Gigapans

The British began construction of this fort in 1759 when they chased the French from the adjacent Fort St. Frédéric (at the base of the bridge). It was one of the largest British forts in America and controlled traffic on the water route between Montreal and Albany, NY. The British occupied the site until 1784 except...

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Otter View Park has been conserved by the Middlebury Area Land Trust as a natural area in a residential section of Middlebury, Vermont. I was hoping to photograph the cattail marsh which is the centerpiece of the park, but the wind direction did not allow that. This image includes part of the marsh, an old field, and...

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A half-spherical panorama stitched from 36 photos taken by a camera lofted by a kite. Below the camera were five study plots established in 1998 above the limit of tree growth at an elevation of 3200 feet in the White Mountains of Alaska. Plot 4 is outlined by a tape along its perimeter, and the others have their bound...

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A Levitation Delta kite lofted a Canon S95 on a KAP rig over the site of this Nearbynature Gigapan: gigapan.org/gigapans/80659/. A snapshot shows the exact location occupied by the gigapan imager.
Wind speed varied enough that the rig rose and fell constantly as the AuRiCo controller snapped photos in a diffe...

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AutoKAP three-quarter spherical panorama from over the Salisbury School. The school was built near the geographic center of town, so much of Salisbury can be seen here.
Canon A590, 35 mm (eq), ISO 80, Tv at 1/1250 sec, Aurico on Brooxes Deluxe KAP rig lofted by Flow Form 16 on 1000 feet of 200# line, 44 images stitche...

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360° view of the agricultural landscape of West Salisbury from a couple hundred feet above the field. This is a half-spherical panorama (the lower hemisphere) from a kite mounted camera rig.
I remembered to focus the camera this time before I launched the KAP rig. Winds were strong, gusting to 20 mph, and flying...